Games like Mendel

Still thinking about Mendel and its relaxing and replayable tone? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Mendel Simulator
Welcome to Mendel Simulator: Flower crossbreeding, a game that blends relaxing simulation with the authentic science of plant genetics. Become a master breeder in your own private greenhouse, where every bloom tells a story of inheritance.
Relaxing, Replayable
98% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Plant Tycoon
A gentle gardening sim where you breed and cross-breed plants toward the 6 Magic Plants of Isola. Start with a couple of dollars and a handful of seeds, tend your nursery in real time, sell your creations and chase a genetic puzzle with over 500 species. Low pressure, easy to love, and it keeps growing while you are away.
Relaxing, Replayable
93% of 207 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$9.99
Crazy Plant Shop
In Crazy Plant Shop, players learn about genes and inheritance by breeding zany plants! Special requests from mysterious customers require players to understand dominant and recessive traits and how genetic traits get passed through generations. Use profits to acquire new breeds, purchase shop upgrades, and acquire new customers!
Relaxing, Replayable
78% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Cloud Gardens
A quiet puzzle toy about letting nature win. Plant seeds in little scenes of urban decay, scatter junk around them so the greenery spreads, and watch a rusted ruin turn into an overgrown garden. No timers, no failure, just the slow pleasure of making something beautiful out of what people left behind.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Replayable, Surreal
95% of 2,103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
The Sapling
Design your own plants, algae, fungi and animals, then set them loose in a world together. Add random mutations and watch evolution fill every niche, or shape the planet yourself, ice ages included. A calm, creative ecosystem toy from solo developer Wessel Stoop.
Relaxing, Replayable
88% of 1,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$17.99
Garden In!
Chill in the peaceful world of Garden In!, a charming sandbox game. Grow unique plants, discover new seeds, and design your dream garden. With its serene atmosphere, you'll find yourself saying 'just one more plant!' Dive in for quick relaxation or lose yourself for hours in the cozy journey.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric
85% of 307 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Creatura
Seed, Breed, Create. From single cell organisms to complex ecosystems. Evolve every part of your own unique aquarium / terrarium by applying scientifically accurate principles of natural and artificial selection, in Creatura - ultimate Virtual Evolution Vivarium Simulator.
Relaxing, Replayable
67% of 219 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Plantasia
A cozy, semi-idle, gardening game in a solarpunk universe that sits at the bottom of your screen while you work.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Atmospheric
85% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Wildmender
A desert gardening survival game where you start with a tiny spring and turn a dead world green. Dig canals, grow strange plants, explore dunes and ruins, and fight the wraiths draining the land. Play solo or with up to three friends, at whatever pace suits you.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
85% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$8.49
Niche - a genetics survival game
Breed a species of cat, fox and bear-like creatures through real genetics and keep the family line alive across procedurally generated islands. A turn-based survival puzzle where predators, sickness and climate change are always waiting, and every run plays out differently.
Relaxing, Replayable
88% of 4,361 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$17.99
Equilinox
Equilinox is a relaxing nature game where you build your own ecosystems from scratch. Place plants and animals, keep every species happy, and spend earned points on genetic tweaks that turn ordinary sheep into bouncing rainbow oddities. Gentle music, low-poly cuteness, and a world that grows at your pace.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
93% of 2,608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers
Cultivate unique gardens, timelapse seeds to blooming orchards in seconds, design procedurally generated plants, nurture ecosystems and discover rare genetic traits in wild flora, to create ultimate species, in state-of-the-art botanical simulation.
Relaxing, Replayable
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Mendel

Mendel Simulator

Welcome to Mendel Simulator: Flower crossbreeding, a game that blends relaxing simulation with the authentic science of plant genetics.

$1.99

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

Polygons eating polygons eating polygons. An evolution sandbox where the genetics really are simulated.

$0.76

GeneBloom

A cozy plant-breeding tycoon where you grow and sell genetically unique flowers while managing a thriving greenhouse.

$2.99

Desk Garden

A tiny garden that lives on your desktop. Buy plots, plant mystery seeds and watch shy sprouts and chatty humanoid blossoms grow while you work or…

$2.99

Plantera

Plant crops, trees and animals in a hand-drawn little farm, let round blue helpers do the picking, and pop the odd rabbit or wolf with a boot.

$2.99

Weed Simulator

Don't smoke weed. Become weed!

$0.99

Fantasy Gardens

This is a relaxed plant simulation game. The adjustment parameters can simulate the ever-changing plant growth state.

$3.99

Mycelarium

Flick your mycelium through the soil, tap hidden water and unlock strange mutations at your own pace.

$3.99

Treeplanter: Plant real trees🌲

🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree!

$3.99

Mountain

Float in space as a mountain, catch the weather, let the seasons turn, and let time pass without lifting a finger.

$0.99

Sandboxels

A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.

$0.99

Flower Design

A flower arrangement sandbox game. The shapes and colors are freely adjustable and there is a garden where you can build a house and put flowers in.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Mendel

Planetary Life

Terraform a barren world, tune its climate and watch the life you seed evolve across millennia, all at your own unhurried pace.

$11.99

Mudborne: Frog Management Sim

A gentle genetics puzzle where you hatch odd new frog species across two worlds, at your own pace and with no way to lose.

$7.99

Simultree

Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.

$6.99

Botany Manor

Explore a Victorian manor and its gardens, gather clues and create the perfect conditions for mysterious plants to bloom.

$24.99

Desk Garden

A tiny garden that lives on your desktop. Buy plots, plant mystery seeds and watch shy sprouts and chatty humanoid blossoms grow while you work or…

$2.99

Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

Plant crops, raise animals and let your round blue helpers run the garden while the great oak grows to the sky.

$4.99

Tiny Eden

Match plants to planters and soil, cook your harvest into dishes to sell, and climb from one small room to a rooftop greenhouse.

$14.99

Tiny Garden

Tiny Garden lets you grow a pocket-sized garden inside a magical toy passed down through generations.

$12.99

Garden Galaxy

Drop coins, place whatever appears, and let a colorful little world grow at its own pace.

$5.99

Wildmender

Bring a dried-up world back to life, one canal and one strange plant at a time, alone or with friends.

$8.49

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator

Plant, clip and tend an abandoned community garden back to life, then sell bouquets and help your village neighbours.

$7.49

Cloud Gardens

Plant seeds in abandoned places, pile junk around them and let the plants take over.

$17.99

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